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FISH HOOK. APPLICATION IILIID DB0. ze, 1912.

Patented Mar. 30, 19m

CHARLES HEDDON, F DOWAGIAC, MICHIGAN.

FISH-HOOK.

Application led December 26, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

serial No. 738,588.

To all whom it may concern Be 1t known that I, CHARLES Hannon, a

citizen of the United States, residing at.

Dowagiac, in the county of Cass and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Fish-Hooks, of which the fol owing is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

My invention pertains to fish-hooks; and relates especially to fish-hooks intended for use in connection with artificial lures.

One of the most usual forms of artificial lure is the artificial minnow, comprising an elongated fish-'sha ed body, generally formed of wood, an usually having a spinner at each end and one or more multi le hooks (usually triple hooks) at each si e, these hooks being mounted so that they normally extend backward alongthe body in a osition to strike readily into the jaws of a sh taking the lure. In addition to the multiple hooks mentioned above, the minnow is usually alsoesu lied with a multiple hook at the tail. referred to above have numerous disadvantages. In the first place, the use of them is considered unsportsmanlike. In the second glace, a multiple hook does not strike as rmly into the jaw of the fish as does a single hook, for the reason that the pull ap lied by the fisherman to the line is distri uted over a number of points instead of one; consequently, the fish, when struck, is not as securely hooked. Also, it is not difiicult for a fish to shake itselfclear of a multiple hook when one of the barbs-has entered the upper jaw and another has entered the lower ]aw, for the reason that the fish is then enabled to obtain a purchase on the hook which otherwise would beimpossible. In the third lace the use of the triple or double hook as been rendered illegal in many localities. The multiple hook has the advantage, however, that, when a fish bites upon it, one or more of the hook-points form an abutment which operates to force another hook-point into the jaw of the fish, thus insuring that the fish be hooked. The sin le hook is preferable to the multiple hoo in that it holds a fish, when hooked, more securely, and that its use is permitted in all localities; it has the disadvantage, however, that it is not certain that a, fish biting on it will be hooked. This disadhe multiple hooks lornarnented in any desired manner.

vantage is especially important when the l single hook is used in connection with an artificial lure; since, in such case, the fish must be hooked immediately it bites upon the lure.

It is an object of my invention to provide a fish-hook which will combine the more important advantages of the single and multlple forms of hook, and which will be sub- ]ect to the disadvantages of neither of them.

It is a further object of my invention to provide an limproved single hook particularly adapted for use in connection with artificial lures.

Other objects will appear from the depanying drawing. It is to be understood, l

however, that the embodiment shown and described is not the only form which my invention may take, but that chan es may be made therein, within the scope o the appended claims.

In the drawing-Figure 1 is a side elevation of an artificial minnow equipped with hooks constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same;A and Fig. 3 is an end view of one of the hooks, looking from the shank end thereof.

Referring now to the drawing, the artificial minnow includes a fish-shaped body 10, which is preferably formed of wood The body 10 has screwed thereinto, at the front end, a stem 11 formed with an eye 12, to which the fish line is adapted to be connected.

4 Mounted upon the stem 11, between the eye 12 and the body 10, is a front spinner 13.

Screwed into the rear end of the body 10 is a. stem 14 formed with an eye 15, and having mounted thereon a rear spinner 16.

Secured in the body 10, one on each side thereof somewhat to the front of the center, are two eyes 17 for receiving the side hooks, the material of the body 10 being protected by means of eyelets 18, formed of brass or the like, surrounding the eyes 17.

Thel parts of the artificial minnow so far described are of a construction well known in the art.

Each of the eyes 17 carries a side-hook. Each of these side-hooks is composed of a single piece of wire bent so as to form two and forming an eye 21 at one end, adapted,

to be looped into one of the'eyes 17. The shank member 20 is formed, at the end remote from the eye 21, into a n ordinary hook-bend 22, terminatingin a barbed point 22". The 'shank member 1'9`is formed at the end thereof remote fromrthe'eye 21, into',`

a loop 23 which extends oppositely from the base ofthe hook-bend22. The base of the loop 23 follows the general curve of the hook-,bend 22; -but the .end of the, loop is bent back to touch, or approximately touch,

V the shank member 19, whereby a firm projection or abutment, 'extending oppositely `from `the hook-bend is produced, whichvprojeetion is incapablejo penetrating, that is, booking, a fish..v XVhile I have shown the 4 rejection or abutment lying. lathe SameA p alle, ment lis preferred, it will understood that if desired, theprojection or abutment may be .Y placed in other angular relations withk respect to the hook bend. l l i The side-hooks, when inserted into the eyelets 17, are supported -bygthereinforcing eyelets 187m such. a .mannerithat they ywill extend baclzwardly andoutwardly in a poy Y taken will engage the lower the rear stem 1i.

sition ready to'stnike into the. jaw `of a fish attempting to take ,the/lure.; YWhen a fish bites upon the minnow, the loopkor projection y23, which may beappropriately. termed the dummy, ,of whichever hokhas been jawvof the fish, thus causing ,the point toentergthe upper jaw of, thefish. l j f' 1 f A,A tail-hookv is attached to ,the eye 15 of This hook, in the embodiment ofmy invention now being described, is provided with two dummies, and consists of a piece of wire bent to form two shank members 24 forming an eye 25 at-:one end, adapted to be looped into the eye 15. At the ends of the shanlcmembers 24 are formed twoy dummies 26similar to the dummy 23 described above, and disposed with relation to each other in the same way as two of the hook-points -of an ordinary triple hook Vwouldbe disposed. Soldered to the shank members 24 .is the shank 2'( of a hook-bend 28, this hook bend occupying-the same position, relatively to the dummies 26, aswould the third hook-bend of-,anordinary triple hook. The tail-hook is looped to the eye 15 in such a manner that the hook-bend 28 pro jects upwardly. When a fishbites upon the tailhook, the dummies 26 cause the hookpoint 28 to enter the upper jaw of the fish, in the manner which has .been described above when dealing with the side hooks.

It will be seen that the hooks described above have the advantage, previously only vhooks of an artificial lure.

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and y this arrangepresent in hooks of the multiple type, that the dummy causes the point of the hook to enter the jaw ofthe fish when the hook is bitten upon. This is a feature of great importance, especially as characterizing the When 'the `hooks are employed in connection their' points extending upward, as described above, the dummies 23 and 26, besides exercisin the functions set forth above, form weed ess projections, protecting the hooks weeds or the like, and enabling' the lure to be drawnover a bankyof Weeds, Vfor instance, with littledanger of the hooks becomingfcntangled in the same. yf'

hi'lefin they foregoing `specificationy have my invention in which and a single abutment, each having ajpa'rf ticular configuration are employed, it is to be understood that variations may be made" in these respects withoutexceeding the 'scope' invention, as defined inthe appended of my claims.

Having thus I clalm as new and desire tersv Patent, is: -1

to secure by Let- 1. A fish hook'includin'gfa pointedhook a non-penetrating projection lo`7 cated substantially :at said'hook'ben'd and' bend nd disposed so 'as to 'extend-'in a direction `away from said hook. bend.' f

A' fish hook including a pointed hook bend anda blunt looplloca'ted substantially at f said hook bendwand disposed so as to exten-d loop located substantially at said hook bendl and disposed so asto extend in a direction away from said hook bend.

4. 1n an artificial fish lure, the combination with'a body, of a hook carried thereby,

with a lure with escribed ay l preferred embodiment Vvof? a single hook point' described my invention, what*A doublesha'nk, ina pointed I said hoek including a pointed hook bend and a nonpenetrating projection loca ted substantially at said hook bend iand disposed so as to extend in a direction-away from said. hook bend.

5. AIn an artificial tion with a body, ofa fishv hook attached thereto and comprising a and a'blunt loop said hook bend and in a direction away from said hook bend.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto sub-i the presence of two wit-Ay scribed my name in nesses.

CHARLES HEDDN.

lVitnesses: i

ELIZABETH A. CROMB, WM. A. SHELIM.

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